Joan Faisant

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Using Visuals to Stimulate Understanding of Unity
and Coherence

• Joan Faisant
• The Language Company-
• Bowling Green

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Day 1Introducing the Concepts of Unity and
Coherence
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Who are they?
Write about what you see. What
do they look like?
What are
they doing?
(Hopgood-Kazee)
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Unity

• 1) The state or quality of being one.
• 2) The act, state, or quality of forming a whole
  from separate parts.
• (Unity)

• Synonyms
• oneness
• completeness
• wholeness
• accord
• harmony
• symphony

(Full Spectrum Unity Holding Hands Concept)
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Do these pictures show the idea of unity? Explain
why or why not.
(Team Canada)
(Diverse Hands Linked in Unity)
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Coherence

• Describe what you see.
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vlqsnkWLlinM
• (Psebeix, Colla)

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Do these videos show the idea of coherence?
Explain why or why not.

• Marines 1

• Marines 2

http//www.youtube.com/watch?vPsbzJ2q_e_c
http//www.youtube.com/watch?vCXa39XyP6q8
(Owens, Brandan)
OutOfRegs.com
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Coherence

• Definitions
• Logical or natural connection or consistency.
• The state of cohering or sticking together.
• Logical, orderly and consistent relation of parts.

• Synonyms
• connection
• comprehensibility
• Antonyms (Lozano, Toni)
• disagreement
• nonsense

(Coherence)
(Broken Chain)
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Unity/CoherenceHomework

• Task
• Find (online, in a magazine, etc.) or create a
  visual (picture, video, etc.) with the idea of
  unity.

• Now it's your turn to present a visual for unity.

• You will present your visual to the class.
• Describe it and explain how it shows unity.

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Day 2Unity and Coherence in Writing
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Unity in Writing

• The entire piece of writing must have one clear
  focus
• Topic sentence (paragraph)
• Thesis statement (essay)

• Support must
• Keep the same focus as the t.s.
• Give more specific information than the t.s.

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Coherence in Writing

• Organize information in a logical way.
• 1, 2, 3...

• Make connections!
• Use connectors
• Use referents

• Use consistent and appropriate verb tense.
• He went to the store. Then, he is going home.
• went

• Use parallel structure.
• I love gardening, painting, reading and to write.
• writing

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Unity and Coherence in WritingApplication
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Shared Writing

• First
• 1) Think of some ideas/topics for writing.
• 2)Be sure everyone in class can write about it.
• 3) Create a topic sentence.
• Write only the topic sentence.

• Second
• 1) Trade papers with another student. Add a
  supporting sentence to his t.s.
• 2) Repeat this until time is up.

• Third
• 1) When the teacher calls time, get your original
  paper back.
• 2) Add a concluding sentence to your piece of
  writing.

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Shared Writing Analysis

• First
• Underline and number each supporting sentence.

• Second
• Read the paper carefully. -Think about unity and
  coherence.

• Third
• Write the answers to the following questions
• 1) Does each s.s. Show unity? (Yes/No)
• -If not, write the of the sentence that does
  not.
• 2) Does each s.s. show coherence? (Yes/No)
• If not, write the of the sentence that does
  not.
• Be ready to explain your reasons!

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Shared Writing Analysis (cont.)

• Now, in a small group
• 1) Each student will read his/her piece of
  writing for the group and explain his answers
  about unity and coherence.

• 2) Each student will either agree or disagree and
  explain why if needed.

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Shared Writing Revision

• Address the problems with unity and/or coherence.
• Each student will revise his/her piece of
  writing.
• The goal is to create a unified and coherent
  piece to be shared with the same small group.

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Works Cited

• Broken Chain. Cartoon. 4 May 2010. Clipart.
  Flickr.com. Web. 10 Oct. 2013.
• Coherence Def. n1, Thesaurus.
  Thefreedictionary.com. Princeton University,
  Farlex Inc, 2003-2012. Web. 1 Mar. 2012.
•  Diverse Hands Linked in Unity. Photograph. 13
  November 2009. Welcome from the director.
  Liftaz.org. Web. 7 Jul. 2013.
• Full Spectrum Unity Holding Hands Concept.
  Cartoon. 25 December 2007. thegoldguys.
  Lumaxart.com. Web. 7 Jul. 2013
•  Hopgood-Kazee. Soldiers standing. Photograph. 13
  Feb. 2013. Princess Hopgood's J237 Blog.
  University of Wisconsin Whitewater.edu. web. 7
  Jul. 2013.
• Line of people. Cartoon. 17 September 2011.
  Connections. Openclipart.org. Web. 7 Jul. 2013.
• Lozano, Toni. Broad Iron Chain. Photograph. 28
  June 2006. Flickr. Web. 2013.
• OutOfRegs.com. Silent Drill Fail. YouTube.
  YouTube, LLC. 14 June 2011. Web. 8 Sep. 2013.
•  Owens, Brandan. United States Marine Corps
  Silent Drill Platoon 2013. YouTube. YouTube,
  LLC. 11 May 2013.Web. 10 Oct. 2013.
• Psebeix, Colla. Amazing Japanese Precision
  (posted by Sanitaryum Clean Humor). YouTube.
  YouTube, LLC. 8 Sep. 2013. Web. 2013.
• Team Canada. Photograph. 15 February 2006.
  Flickr. Web. 7 Jul. 2013.
• "Unity." Def. 1, Def. 2. Thefreedictionary.com.
  Princeton University, Farlex Inc, 2003-2012. Web.
  1 Mar. 2012.

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For Further Reading

• Bamberg, B. 1984. Assessing coherence A
  reanalysis of essays written for the National
  Assessment of Education Progress. Research in the
  Teaching of English, 18, 3, pp. 305319.
• Connor, U. and A. M. Johns. 1990. Coherence in
  writing Research and pedagogical perspectives.
  Alexandria, VA Teachers of English to Speakers
  of Other Languages.
• Ferris, D. and J. S. Hedgecock. 1998. Teaching
  ESL composition Purpose, process, and practice.
  Mahwah, NJ Lawrence Erlbaum.
• Giltrow, J. 1995. Academic writing Writing and
  reading across the disciplines (2nd ed.).
  Peterborough, Ontario Broadview Press.
• Leki, I. 1996. L2 composing Strategies and
  perceptions. In Writing in a second language
  Insights from first and second language teaching
  and research, ed. B. Leeds. White Plains, NY
  Longman, pp. 2736.
• Liu, D. 2000. Writing cohesion Using content
  lexical ties in ESOL. English Teaching Forum, 38,
  1, pp. 2833.
• Ruegg, Rachael, Sugiyama, Yuko. Organization
  of ideas in writing what are raters sensitive
  to? Language Testing in Asia 3. 8 (2013). Web.
• Silva, T. 1992. L1 vs. L2 writing ESL graduate
  students perceptions. TESL Canada Journal, 10,
  1, pp. 2747.
• Struthers, Lynda, Lapadat, Judith C., MacMillan,
  Peter D. Assessing cohesion in childrens
  writing Development of a checklist. Assessing
  Writing 18. 3 (2013) 187-201. Web.

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Thank you!

• Joan Faisant
• The Language Company - Bowling Green
• Email jfaisant3_at_gmail.com